scholarly journals SMART LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-119
Author(s):  
Inna Nesterenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Smart Learning ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
High Level ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
Ted Talks

The article considers the issue of teaching a foreign language to students of high-level institutions. The purpose of the article is to investigate the educational potential of TED Talks as a powerful tool that can be effectively used for preparing future professionals to communicate in an academic and professional environment. The democratic, apolitical and unpredictable nature of the TED Talks platforms was emphasized, as well as the value of this project in expanding the students’ worldview. The significance and relevance of the TED Talks project are substantiated. It is emphasized that the videos meet modern requirements for the formation of skills, competencies, and values, such as creativity, critical thinking, communicative visibility, media literacy, flexibility, etc. The main methods used in the article are divided into theoretical (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, modeling, classification) and empirical (document analysis, expert survey). The advantages of using and the urgency of implementation TED Talks presentations as educational material in English classes are outlined; the usefulness for students' socio-cultural development, vocabulary expansion, improvement of listening, reading, speaking skills, as well as the ability to make presentations and note what is heard is revealed. The analysis of numerous videos allowed us to determine the main criteria for video selection. We concluded that one of the main tasks of modern education is to create a stable students’ motivation to acquire knowledge, the other is to find new forms and tools for mastering this knowledge through creative solutions. The use of Smart learning technologies opens up many new opportunities in learning, which improve students' concentration, speed up a mastering of learning material and as a result, increase the success of each student.

MEDIA EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: TO THE QUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
Anzhelika A. Dyakina ◽  
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Alexandr N. Puzatykh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Target Language ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Ted Talks

In modern society as a result of the processes of globalization of both the media space and the educational environment, the need for learning the English language is actively promoted. The economy of the new information, communication and technological level makes special de-mands to the modern person. They must be a versatile personality who knows how to find neces-sary information, criticallyanalyze it, navigate well in the media space and know a foreign lan-guage. This article discusses the possibility of creating such a model for conducting English languageclasses which would contribute to the formation of media educational competencies in students of various fields of training that meet the requirements of the modern digital economy. The authors of the article suggest that this problem can be solved by using media education technologies during English classes. The authors analyze in detail the use of the original content of the TED Talks portal, which for 5 years (since 2016) has been usedat English language classes with students of non-linguistic specialties at Bunin Yelets State University. The authors are confident that this ap-proach allows students to more actively immerse themselves in the language environment, get better acquainted with cultural realities of the country of the target language and listen to mod-ern live English speech. The article describes the development of an integrative lesson for students of the depart-ment of journalism, where the media content of the TED Talks portal is used. It is concluded that modern education requires closer integration of a foreign language and media. This can be partly realized by the systematic use of the modern content of the TED Talks portal, which con-tributes not only to the development of language skills, but also teaches to critically analyze me-dia materials of various genres and create own communicative media product.

PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED TEACHING AS A FACTOR OF MOTIVATION TO LEARNING ENGLISH IN NON-LINGUISTIC HIGH SCHOOLS (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF DIFFERENT DIDACTIVE METHODS USING ON ENGI NEERING FACULTY)

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Active Teaching ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
Oriented Approach

This article is devoted to the features and benefits of a professionally-oriented approach to teaching a foreign language in non-linguistic high schools on the example of engineering education. According to the latest standards of higher education (FSES 3++), students must have sufficient knowledge of a foreign language for business communication in oral and written forms. However, teachers of high schools face a number of difficulties in the formation of a foreign language communicative competence offuture engineers, namely: a constant decrease of a number offoreign language practical classes in a curriculum of a high school and a weak motivation of students. In our opinion, a professionally-oriented approach to teaching helps to solve these problems and make the process of learning a foreign language more intensive, focused and effective. That is, now, the development of strategies, methodological models and tools for teaching English, with a focus on professional communication, is an actual task for an English teacher at the University. This article presents some methods and techniques that stimulate students of engineering faculty to professionally oriented communication in English. Much attention is paid to both active teaching methods used during practical English classes, and individual work, which allows students to get more useful information and skills within the practical classes given, and also allows students to develop the need for individual knowledge acquisition and comprehension, thereby providing the increased interest of communication in a foreign language and increasing motivation to learn a foreign language.

scholarly journals Scientific Conferences as Way to Develop Students’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01155
Author(s):  
Yuliya Savinova ◽  
Tatiana Akhmetzyanova ◽  
Svetlana Pozdnyakova ◽  
Ekaterina Dvorak ◽  
Zhanna Zarutskaya
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
High Level ◽  
Development Of Students

The issues of the student engagement in science-related activities and the development of students’ language communicative competence are especially relevant in a technical university, where due to the prevailing of the Sciences, the professional communicative competence has become increasingly vital. The goal of this article is to examine how interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages can foster the foreign language communicative competence of students. In the article, we present the definition and the three basic models of communicative competence. A method of pedagogical observation is used that represents comprehension and analysis of goal-oriented preparation of students for practical scientific conferences. We reveal the fact that interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages allow educators to foster the foreign language communicative competence of students and deepen their knowledge in professional area, as well as to equip them with research skills since students’ participation in the conferences increases their attention and focus, motivates them to practice critical thinking skills of high level.

INTERPRETATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES EDUCATION: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Vera B. Tsarcova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Real World ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Educational Potential

The article is devoted to one of the problems of foreign language education – the definition of the role of interpretation in preparing students of special (language) directions to participate in the dialogue of cultures. Interpretation is considered as a phenomenon and as a way of comprehending reality, which allows the subjects of the dialogue of cultures to reach mutual understanding. The main characteristic of interpretation, which is necessary for the purposes of foreign language education, is its psychological character. It is determined by the psychology of the author, the psychology of the work, as well as the psychology of the reader-interpreter. It is proved that the interpretation of a work of art, which has universal, historical and personal plans, has huge epistemological and axiological possibilities. They activate the entire educational potential of interperetation (educational, developmental, cognitive, and educational). Russian Russian poet A. A. Fet (1820–1892) uses the poem “Wir saßen am Fischerhaus” by the famous German poet and publicist Heinrich Hein (1797–1856) and the translation of this poem into Russian to illustrate the interpretation technology. The poem is considered as a space of personal meanings of the author. They are the ones that are subject to interpretation and bring the reader-interpreter back from the poet's world to the modern real world. And the real world is full of unexpected cultural facts, closely related to the content of the work of G. Heine, with distant Lapland and the life of modern lapps. Thus, interpretation is presented as an educational strategy. Together with the strategies of contextualization, philologization and argumentation, it ensures the achievement of the main goal of foreign language education – the creation of an individual who can act as a genuine subject of the dialogue of cultures. The article also emphasizes the importance of the teacher as the organizer of the educational process and the subject of the dialogue of cultures.

PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNITY OF KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCIES, AND VALUES OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN SCHOOL

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Oksana Yakymchuk
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Pedagogical Action ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Competencies ◽  
High Level ◽  
Unity Of Knowledge ◽  
Educational Potential

The formation of a powerful, active, and dynamic axiological foundation of personality is one of the essential tasks of the competency approach because even a high level of knowledge and skills acquired in the process of learning and education cannot ensure the integrity and progressively oriented unity of personal and professional competencies for future successful life, socio-cultural and professional self-realization. Given this, within the competence paradigm of education, qualitatively new content is the unity of learning and education. If before a significant amount of theoretical knowledge, detached from real life, had a shallow educational potential, now any pedagogical action, even focused on the cognitive assimilation of basic scientific knowledge, will have a worldview. An essential characteristic of the competency approach in education is that it can ensure each student’s unique structure the unity of knowledge, competencies, and values.

STATE AND PROSPECTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN KAZAKHSTAN: EXPERIENCE OF EMPIRICAL STUDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
A. Ye. Bizhkenova ◽  
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D.M. Kabenova ◽  
Z.S. Takuova ◽  
M. Adilkhanuly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
The Right

In the system of foreign language education in Kazakhstan,English is a priority at all levels of education. English is the language which is chosen by parents as a foreign for their children in preschool age. This article is devoted to the study of the status and current issues of teaching English in Kazakhstan. It is based on the results of a practical survey of eighth grade students of some secondary schools, as well as on observation of the educational process. During a visit to English classes and after conversations with school teachers, the problematic aspects of the learning process were identified. The article provides an overview of modern methods and principles of classes’ organization, contains recommendations for solving theidentified problems. The authors of the article also tried to find out the desire of students to learn not only English, but also other foreign languages, because according to the state regulatory documents, students at school have the right to choose a foreign language, which they want tolearn. The desire to communicate in a foreign language, readiness for foreign language communication, the role ofEnglish language in the student’s life, the main activities in foreign language lessons were some of the key issues, that were considered in this scientific work.

MODERN LINGUODIDACTICS AND MNEMONICS: FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO MEMORIZE NEW VOCABULARY

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Tat’yana A. Markelova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Internet ◽  
English Classes ◽  
False Idea ◽  
Mnemonic Techniques

The paper deals with the search and application of effective methods of memorizing foreign language vocabulary, based on integrative and personal development approaches within the framework of modern linguodidactics. The Internet era, which maximally simplifies the process of searching for and translating foreign words, engender among students a false idea that there is no need to form special skills of memorizing foreign language vocabulary. In this regard, the development of new ways how to activate memory for educational purposes is of particular relevance, as well as the study of such mental processes of memory as memorizing, preserving, reproducing and forgetting. The author refers to some aspects of linguodidactics’ and mnemonics’ historical evolution, foreign and Russian experience of using mnemonic techniques in the process of studying and teaching foreign languages. Memorizing based on mnemonic encoding into images (when objects are linked with existing information in the memory) contributes to the process of mastering foreign language vocabulary, it becomes faster and easier, and it results in a long-term memorization of the material. In the paper, the author shares the practical experience of applying and teaching mnemonic techniques at English classes. The latter include phonetic associations, visual images, pictures, kinesthetic representations. In conclusion, the author makes an inference that it is advisable to teach students the technique of mnemonics as one of the effective ways to facilitate the process of memorizing new vocabulary.

scholarly journals An AI Framework to Teach English as a Foreign Language: CSIEC

AI Magazine ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiyou Jia
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Educational Communication ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Dialogue System ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Web Based ◽  
English Classes ◽  
English Instruction

CSIEC (Computer Simulation in Educational Communication), is not only an intelligent web-based human-computer dialogue system with natural language for English instruction, but also a learning assessment system for learners and teachers. Its multiple functions—including grammar-based gap filling exercises, scenario show, free chatting and chatting on a given topic—can satisfy the various requirements for students with different backgrounds and learning abilities. After a brief explanation of the conception of our dialogue system, as well as a survey of related works, we will illustrate the system structure, and describe its pedagogical functions with the underlying AI techniques in detail such as NLP and rule-based reasoning. We will summarize the free Internet usage within a six month period and its integration into English classes in universities and middle schools. The evaluation findings about the class integration show that the chatting function has been improved and frequently utilized by the users, and the application of the CSIEC system on English instruction can motivate the learners to practice English and enhance their learning process. Finally, we will conclude with potential improvements.

scholarly journals INNOVATIVE METHODS OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR STUDENTS OF NON-LANGUAGE SPECIALTIES WITHIN

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (194) ◽  
pp. 158-162
Author(s):  
Alina Mekheda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Educational Potential

The article reviews the main reasons for the growth of the role of a «foreign language» discipline within the framework of non-linguistic specialties as part of the process of gradual reformation of the higher education system in Ukraine. The author addresses the search for effective concepts for the integration of professional training and teaching foreign languages for future highly qualified specialists in non-linguistic universities, which are reflected in strategic government documents. The main innovative methods of teaching a foreign language, conditions for their effective application in the educational process of higher educational institutions along with their teaching and educational potential are analyzed. Amongst the innovative methods of teaching students a foreign language, the author highlighted the following: training modules that ensure the development of the fluency of students' speech, as well as their confident communication in a foreign language; case technologies that make it possible to use practical life situations for learning; binary classes allowing the integration of subjects, interest and students` motivation. Educators and students have the opportunity to use the Internet and computer technology to increase the efficiency of the process of learning foreign languages in university courses. A great tool for learning foreign languages are mobile applications and Internet platforms that use authentic materials. Students and teachers have access to audio and video materials created by native speakers who are also teachers. Mobile applications allow you to independently create test tasks, surveys and a variety of games and involve a large number of students.

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